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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Florida
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Samuel Clemens
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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
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None but the dead have free speech.
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The proverb says, Born lucky, always lucky, and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
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Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
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